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The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.

— Louis Kahn

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote themselves and put everything into bringing a building into existence.

— Thomas Heatherwick

The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.

— Alvar Aalto

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

— Toyo Ito

Who is the architect? I am the architect.

— Jeff Rich

I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.

— David Chipperfield

I am an architect, first.

— Hugh Hardy

A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.

— Cameron Sinclair

✗Opposing Perspectives

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.

— Renzo Piano

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

— Peter Zumthor

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.

— Thom Mayne